California · Private foundation
Exchange Bank Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $43k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Exchange Bank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $43k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $35k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $42k | 82% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $33k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $31k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $27k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $66k | 81% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $82k | 96% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonoma County Fair Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 24% |
| Sonoma County Library Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Santa Rosa Symphony Association | $18,200 | 4 | 0% |
| The Ceres Community Project | $16,142 | 5 | 0% |
| The Living Room Center | $11,300 | 3 | 0% |
| The Zones | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Food for Thought | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mentor Me | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| North Bay Childrens Center Inc | $8,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Exchange Bank Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Heck Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Codding Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc · Weinreb Pilecki Segal Foundation
How this is measured
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About Exchange Bank Foundation
- How much does Exchange Bank Foundation give?
- Exchange Bank Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $43,183 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Exchange Bank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (17%), Human Services (17%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are Exchange Bank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sonoma County Fair Foundation ($40k), Sonoma County Library Foundation ($25k), Santa Rosa Symphony Association ($18k).
- Does Exchange Bank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Exchange Bank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Exchange Bank Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation, The Heck Foundation.
- Where is Exchange Bank Foundation based?
- Exchange Bank Foundation is based in CA.
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